I’d love to help you out. You’ll probably want to use the get_terms() function and it may look something like this:
$artists = get_terms(array(
'taxonomy' => 'artist', // Taxonomy name, or array of taxonomy names
'hide_empty' => false, // Show terms not assigned to anything
'orderby' => 'name', // Order the artists by the term name
'order' => 'DESC' // Order them alphabetically from A to Z
));
You can read more about what parameters are accepted here. That code snippet will pull all artists, and then on the page, you can display them in a table like this:
if ( is_wp_error($artists) ) {
// Do something about the error
} elseif( count($artists) ) {
// Artists found, open the table
printf(
'<table><thead><tr><th colspan="2">%s</th></tr><tr><th>%s</th><th>%s</th></tr></thead><tbody>',
__('Artists'),
__('Name'),
__('Count')
);
// Loop through each artist, adding their row
foreach( $artists as $artist ) {
printf(
'<tr><td>%s</td><td>%s<td></tr>',
esc_html($artist->name),
esc_html($artist->count)
);
}
// Close the table
echo('</tbody></table>');
} else {
// No artists found
}
That example will display a table with two columns, one with the artist’s name and then the total number of music post they’re assigned to. Since each artist in the loop is a WP_Term object, you can access these properties:
object(WP_Term) (11) {
["term_id"]=> //int
["name"]=> //string
["slug"]=> //string
["term_group"]=> //int
["term_taxonomy_id"]=> //int
["taxonomy"]=> //string
["description"]=> //string
["parent"]=> //int
["count"]=> // int
["filter"]= //string
["meta"]= array(0) {} //an array of meta fields.
I personally love modularity, so if you want to save writing repetitive code, you could do something like this:
// Define all the custom taxonomies you want to get and their nice label
$taxonomies = array(
'albums' => __('Albums'),
'artists' => __('Artists')
);
// Loop through them
foreach($taxonomies as $taxonomy => $taxonomy_name) {
// Get the terms
$terms = get_terms(array(
'taxonomy' => $taxonomy, // Taxonomy name, or array of taxonomy names
'hide_empty' => false, // Show terms not assigned to anything
'orderby' => 'name', // Order by the term name
'order' => 'DESC' // Order them alphabetically from A to Z
));
if ( is_wp_error($terms) ) {
// Do something about the error
} elseif( count($terms) ) {
// Terms found, open the table
printf(
'<table><thead><tr><th colspan="2">%s</th></tr><tr><th>%s</th><th>%s</th></tr></thead><tbody>',
$taxonomy_name, // The nice label
__('Name'),
__('Count')
);
// Loop through each term, adding their row
foreach( $terms as $term ) {
printf(
'<tr><td>%s</td><td>%s<td></tr>',
esc_html($term->name),
esc_html($term->count)
);
}
// Close the table
echo('</tbody></table>');
} else {
// No terms found
printf(
__('No results found for <strong>%s</strong>.'),
$taxonomy_name
);
}
}